Russia’s propaganda operation is failing

Look who's back and spreading her government's propaganda.

Russian 'spy' Maria Butina spreads Kremlin propaganda on BBC Radio: 'Russia is not bombing citizens'
https://www.rawstory.com/maria-butina-russia/

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Suspected Russian spy Maria Butina justified her country's invasion of Ukraine during an appearance on BBC Radio.

Butina, who was convicted of acting as an unregistered foreign agent and then elected to Russia's parliament after her release from a U.S. prison, told BBC Radio host Nick Robinson that Vladimir Putin's invasion was going exactly as planned, reported The Daily Beast.

“Yes, absolutely," she told Robinson. "I do trust my president as well as the majority of Russians do.”

She agreed with Putin's claim that Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who is Jewish, is a Nazi, and she disputed Robinson when he pointed out his grandfather had died fighting Nazis during World War II.

“You know," Butina said, "I do believe that Nazism is not about just one nation, it’s about killing, murdering, torturing, alienation, based on their race, their gender., their nationality, country of origin and what we see today.”

Robinson said that sounded like a description of Putin, and Butina blamed the fighting on Ukraine.

“Russia is not bombing citizens,” she said. “Russian military troops actually are having humanitarian corridors.”
 
Hey, Remember When Russian Propaganda Was Supposed to Be Unstoppable?
https://www.nationalreview.com/corn...an-propaganda-was-supposed-to-be-unstoppable/

For several years, in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s election, we heard from a lot of folks in Washington that the Russian government had unparalleled propaganda, disinformation, and influencing tools and was shaping the debate and American opinions with terrifying effectiveness. (Some of us took a look and saw wide-ranging efforts but no evidence that those Russian efforts actually swung the election. Self-identified “very conservative” Facebook users were not going to vote for Hillary Clinton.)

Now that Maria Butina — the redheaded Russian spy who pled guilty to conspiracy charges back in 2018, spent 15 months in prison, and moved back to Russia — is telling the BBC that the Ukrainians are bombing their own cities, can we all agree that the Russian government’s overseas propaganda and disinformation programs were overhyped?

Go figure, it turns out Russia cannot brainwash significant numbers of Westerners into buying their propaganda. You can’t spin an invasion, shelling cities, bombing maternity hospitals, or thermobaric weapons. Russia may dump a lot of money, time, and effort into shaping Western views of the country, its regime, and their agenda. There’s little sign that it is working.
 
I know this will get me labeled as a "Kremlin Lover" (who really cares) but it is important to remember that not everything coming out of Russia is a lie, and not everything coming out of the Ukraine is absolute truth. There are lies on both sides, and they are meant to drive a narrative. Everything should be investigated thoroughly.
 
Tsing Tao said:
I know this will get me labeled as a "Kremlin Lover" (who really cares) but it is important to remember that not everything coming out of Russia is a lie, and not everything coming out of the Ukraine is absolute truth. There are lies on both sides, and they are meant to drive a narrative. Everything should be investigated thoroughly.
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Kremlin’s Lavrov Somehow Manages to Say ‘We Didn’t Attack Ukraine’ With Straight Face
https://www.thedailybeast.com/serge...ay-we-didnt-attack-ukraine-with-straight-face
 
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